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About African-American Shakespeare Co.

Location:

762 Fulton Street, Suite 305, San Francisco, CA 94102, US

Mission Statement

African-American Shakespeare Company was introduced in 1994 to create an opportunity and a venue for minority actors to hone their skills and talent in mastering some of the world's greatest classical roles; and to unlock the realm of classic theatre to a diverse audience who have been alienated from discovering these time-favored works in a style that reaches, speaks, and embraces their cultural aesthetic and identity. Drawing on our own imagination, creativity, experience, and the resources at our disposal, we strive to provide the world with the best theatrical experience that combines a rich cultural aesthetic within a world-classic production in a manner that is lively, entertaining, and rings relevant to diverse contemporary audiences.

Description

The award-winning African-American Shakespeare Company (AASC) inspires to highlight artist of color’s dynamic cultural vibrancy within classical productions.

For over twenty-five years our organization has produced over 85 productions, provided free student matinees to 152 schools and 20,683 students; reached over 146,000 patrons through our mainstage productions and our arts education program. All with the goal to bring the classics to a diverse community in a method that would appeal to their aesthetic.

African-American Shakespeare Company has produced very unique and distinctive works which has appealed to a minority audience when it comes to the classics:
* Hip-hop version of Macbeth
* Twelfth Night set in San Francisco's Jazz corridor
* The Importance of Being Earnest set in the Harlem Renaissance

Voted the Best Live Theatre in San Francisco from SF Magazine in 2018; and The Paine Knickerbocker Award in 2014 for Outstanding Achievement for a Theater Company by the San Francisco Bay Area Theatre Critics Circle.